{"id":41133,"date":"2013-11-19T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/umns_guilty_verdict_on_both_counts_in_pennsylvania_clergy_trial_due_to_same\/"},"modified":"2013-11-19T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:45:22","slug":"umns_guilty_verdict_on_both_counts_in_pennsylvania_clergy_trial_due_to_same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41133","title":{"rendered":"(UMNS) Guilty verdict on both counts in Pennsylvania clergy trial due to same sex Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the jurors were seated, [Retired Bishop Alfred] Gwinn explained to them that both sides of the trials had agreed to two facts. First, [the Rev. Frank] Schaefer had performed a same-sex ceremony that involved his son and partner in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on April 28, 2007.  Second, Schaefer signed a certificate of marriage that stated he \u201csolemnized the marriage\u201d\u009d and that he was ordained United Methodist clergy of The United Methodist Church.<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer declared \u201cnot guilty\u201d\u009d to both of the charges he faces, which fall under the 2004 Book of Discipline. He is accused of violating these two parts of Paragraph 2702.1:<\/p>\n<p>(b) practices declared by The United Methodist Church to be incompatible with Christian teachings,15 including but not limited to: being a self-avowed practicing homosexual; or conducting ceremonies which celebrate homosexual unions; or performing same-sex wedding ceremonies;**<\/p>\n<p>(d) disobedience to the order and discipline of The United Methodist Church;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umcconnections.org\/2013\/11\/18\/clergy-trial-pennsylvania-way\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the jurors were seated, [Retired Bishop Alfred] Gwinn explained to them that both sides of the trials had agreed to two facts. First, [the Rev. Frank] Schaefer had performed a same-sex ceremony that involved his son and partner in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41133\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,175,168,360,154,177,159,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}